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Moving the control, data and redo log file of an Oracle 11g R2 database to a new location

Moving the control, data and redo log file of an Oracle 11g R2 database to a new location

I’m looking into moving the location the control file of my Oracle database into a different location. The new location will be a file system that has been mounted on an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system.

Found some great information at http://psoug.org/reference/control_file.html

Here is what I did on my system.

$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Thu Feb 10 12:01:47 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> show parameter control;

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
control_file_record_keep_time        integer     7
control_files                        string      /home/test/test1/control01.ctl
                                                 , /home/test/test1/control02.c
                                                 tl
control_management_pack_access       string      DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING
SQL>
SQL> shutdown abort;
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> create pfile from spfile;

File created.

SQL>

On the host system, copy the files from their current location(/home/test/test1) to the new location(/oraarch/test1)


$ ls
control01.ctl  redo01.log     redo03.log     system01.dbf   undotbs01.dbf
control02.ctl  redo02.log     sysaux01.dbf   temp01.dbf     users01.dbf
$ pwd
/home/test/test1
$

Next, update the init<instance_name>.ora file under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs with the new location

$ cat inittest1.ora | grep control
*.control_files='/oraarch/test1/control01.ctl','/oraarch/test1/control02.ctl'

Now, create a new spfile with the updated information.

SQL> create spfile from pfile;

File created.

SQL> show parameter control;

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
control_file_record_keep_time        integer     7
control_files                        string      /oraarch/test1/control01.ctl,
                                                 /oraarch/test1/control02.ctl
control_management_pack_access       string      DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING
SQL>

There we go, we have the location of the control files updated.

==================================================================

Next we will move the data files to the new location.

isvp17> su - oracle
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Thu Feb 10 12:59:00 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select name from v$datafile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/home/test/test1/system01.dbf
/home/test/test1/sysaux01.dbf
/home/test/test1/undotbs01.dbf
/home/test/test1/users01.dbf

SQL> shutdown abort;
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL>

Copy the data files to the new location.

$ cp /home/test/test1/system01.dbf /oradata/test1
$ cp /home/test/test1/sysaux01.dbf /oradata/test1
$ cp /home/test/test1/undotbs01.dbf /oradata/test1
$ cp /home/test/test1/users01.dbf /oradata/test1


Start the database in startup mount mode
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Thu Feb 10 13:04:41 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup mount;
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 1.0289E+10 bytes
Fixed Size                  2215712 bytes
Variable Size            5301600480 bytes
Database Buffers         4966055936 bytes
Redo Buffers               18743296 bytes
Database mounted.
SQL>
SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/system01.dbf' to '/oradata/test1/system01.dbf';

Database altered.

SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/sysaux01.dbf' to '/oradata/test1/sysaux01.dbf';

Database altered.
SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/undotbs01.dbf' to '/oradata/test1/undotbs01.dbf';

Database altered.

SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/users01.dbf' to '/oradata/test1/users01.dbf';

Database altered.

SQL> alter database open;

Database altered.

SQL> select name from v$datafile;

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/oradata/test1/system01.dbf
/oradata/test1/sysaux01.dbf
/oradata/test1/undotbs01.dbf
/oradata/test1/users01.dbf

SQL>

==================================================================================

Lastly we will change the location of the redo logs of the database

Found lots of good information on it at http://www.ordba.net/Tutorials/Redolog.htm

Here is how I moved my redlo logs to the new location.

SQL> shutdown abort;
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL>



$ cp redo0*.log /oralog/test1
$ ls /oralog/test1
redo01.log  redo02.log  redo03.log
$


SQL> startup mount;
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 1.0289E+10 bytes
Fixed Size                  2215712 bytes
Variable Size            5301600480 bytes
Database Buffers         4966055936 bytes
Redo Buffers               18743296 bytes
Database mounted.
SQL> select member from v$logfile;

MEMBER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/home/test/test1/redo03.log
/home/test/test1/redo02.log
/home/test/test1/redo01.log

SQL>
SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/redo01.log' to '/oralog/test1/redo01.log';

Database altered.

SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/redo02.log' to '/oralog/test1/redo02.log';

Database altered.

SQL> alter database rename file '/home/test/test1/redo03.log' to '/oralog/test1/redo03.log';

Database altered.

SQL>
SQL> alter database open;

Database altered.

SQL> select member from v$logfile;

MEMBER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/oralog/test1/redo03.log
/oralog/test1/redo02.log
/oralog/test1/redo01.log

SQL>


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